Re: Adjust line spacing in markup column for fingerings

2024-06-20 Thread Curt McDowell
baseline-skip seems to do the job: || Found here: LilyPond snippets: Tweaks and overrides <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/snippets/tweaks-and-overrides> Regards, Curt On 6/20/2024 5:00 PM, Fennel wrote: Hi all, Getting this behavior when trying to put fingerings in

Re: search and replace on all included files on compile

2024-03-06 Thread Curt McDowell
to replace larger chunks of LilyPond code? It would also help to know what operating system environment you are using. The answer may be to make a copy of the whole tree and run a search/replace utility recursively on all the files. Regards, Curt On 3/6/2024 10:56 AM, Michael Winter via LilyPond user

Re: "Squished" tie between 2 notes

2024-02-12 Thread Curt McDowell
I often resolve squished ties like that by flipping the tie; e.g., using *fis^~* to force the tie on top, or *fis_~* to force it to the bottom. (In this case, it looks good on top, but this doesn't help if you really want it on the bottom.) Regards, Curt On 2/11/24 09:30, George wrote: bar 78

Re: performance marks

2024-02-06 Thread Curt McDowell
/09/LeCheminDeFer.pdf Cheers, Curt On 2/3/24 16:18, Valentin Petzel wrote: rather than postscript you should probably use the high level path command. This will work with other outputs than just SVG. So instead of \markup\postscript #"0.17 setlinewidth -1.50 1.25 moveto 0 1.0 rlineto stroke

Re: Output PDF to stdout

2024-01-12 Thread Curt McDowell
Have you actually tried this? LilyPond appends ".pdf" to the output filename (and ".midi"). If you try to make the fifo ending in ".pdf", you find lilypond removes the fifo before writing a new file. For the same reasons, the output file cannot be /dev/stdout. Maybe you could write something

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-03 Thread Curt McDowell
en crop up. convert-ly will be there if something actually goes wrong, but this remains an annoyance for people concerned with precision. On 7/1/2023 12:09 PM, Jean Abou Samra wrote: Le samedi 01 juillet 2023 à 11:30 -0700, Curt McDowell a écrit : I tend not to use convert-ly because I feel upgrad

Re: How to submit a feature request (issue)

2023-07-01 Thread Curt McDowell
their working environment on my account. Using convert-ly would only serve as a barrier to compiling my files, most of which are still on 2.18 and compile with 2.22 (I can't think of a case where something broke). Regards, Curt On 6/30/2023 3:36 PM, Stu McKenzie wrote: I'm not sure how to submit

Re: Anybody else playing with GPT4 and Lilypond?

2023-03-29 Thread Curt McDowell
based on GPT-4) is much worse than chat.openai.com, despite its ability to look up info on the web, and often just says it can't find anything. Regards, Curt On 3/29/2023 3:43 PM, Saul Tobin wrote: I've seen some examples of other people succeeding in getting ChatGPT with GPT4 to compose simple

Re: UTF-8 characters in filenames with Lilypond 2.23

2022-05-24 Thread Curt McDowell
warning: cannot find file: `t??st.ly' I don't know why. Lilypond 2.20.0 works in the same environment and seems insensitive to LANG. -Curt On 5/21/2022 10:36 PM, David F. wrote: No, I get the same error running lilypond from the command line: $ lilypond --png tést.ly GNU LilyPond 2.23.9 (running

Edit scheme files with Frescobaldi

2022-02-10 Thread Curt McDowell
ession)? I haven't found how in the docs. Thanks! Curt

Re: Typesetting output on one long line

2021-01-26 Thread Curt McDowell
the png and add background, used ffmpeg and other tools -- one filthy hack after another. It looks like I maybe should have used 60Hz framerate instead of 30Hz. Regards, Curt On 1/26/2021 8:56 AM, Amelie Protscher wrote: Dear list members, although I'm a veteran user since 1.6.6, I've just come

Re: Outputting to stdout

2020-08-30 Thread Curt McDowell
Another way to hack it on Linux: ln -s /dev/stdout my_file.png lilypond --png my_file.ly | my_program rm my_file.png Regards, Curt On 8/21/2020 4:02 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 21 Aug 2020 at 22:00:54 (+0200), Krystian Chachuła wrote: Is there a way of making lilypond output

Re: Lilypond svg output to stdout?

2020-05-22 Thread Curt McDowell
A way to output to stdout directly (on Linux):    $ ln -s /dev/stdout foo.svg    $ lilypond -dbackend=svg -o foo music.ly Regards, Curt On 5/5/2020 2:42 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 03 May 2020 at 12:22:31 (+0200), Valentin Villenave wrote: On 4/30/20, David Wright wrote: On Thu 30 Apr

Re: Remote Ensemble Playing

2020-04-03 Thread Curt McDowell
usic <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1V4iUQWtDU> :) -Curt

Re: Titles italic format ignored

2020-02-14 Thread Curt McDowell
"A Medley for Orchestra" or   subtitle = \markup \raise #1.0 \fontsize #-3 \override #'(font-name . "Arial Black Italic") "A Medley for Orchestra" Regards, Curt McDowell

LilyJazz 2.0

2017-10-25 Thread Curt
maybe that has been fixed already. Thanks! Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: lilyjazz

2017-10-10 Thread Curt
with the new filenames of the *.otf files (for instance, I think jazzchords.ly <http://jazzchords.ly/> needs to be updated in one place to point to lilyjazz-chord), but I’m not sure if there were other changes made in the updated version of those files. Thanks, Curt > On Oct 10, 2017, at

lilyjazz

2017-10-09 Thread Curt
Hi, I’m stumped on how to install lilyjazz on my Mac. I cloned https://github.com/OpenLilyPondFonts/lilyjazz and installed the fonts from otf/ and supplementary-fonts/ into FontBook. So now in FontBook, I have the 8 “numbered” lilyjazz fonts, lilyjazz-brace, lilyjazz-chord, and lilyjazz-text.

Re: survey on multiple development versions

2013-12-10 Thread Curt
binaries themselves. Curt On Dec 10, 2013, at 5:23 AM, Mike Solomon m...@mikesolomon.org wrote: Hey all, I recently e-mailed the development list about multiple concurrent development versions and I’d like to ask users, especially those currently using the development version, to take the time

Re: Problems with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-12-08 Thread Curt
In his initial announcement, he wrote, At any rate, the whole LilyJAZZ issue shall be open and free (just like Lilypond)... Is that not enough? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-03/msg00647.html Curt On Dec 8, 2013, at 5:05 AM, Federico Bruni fedel...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-03 Thread Curt
On Dec 2, 2013, at 3:07 PM, SoundsFromSound soundsfromso...@gmail.com wrote: Urs Liska wrote Am 02.12.2013 23:34, schrieb Curt: I've written perl scripts that generate lilypond snippets to include in Anki decks for self-study of jazz theory. There's all kinds of crazy programming people

Re: Other programming languages LilyPond

2013-12-02 Thread Curt
written perl scripts that generate lilypond snippets to include in Anki decks for self-study of jazz theory. There's all kinds of crazy programming people can do with Lilypond. Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

RE: Change page number during score

2013-10-28 Thread Curt McDowell
Here's an example that numbers pages with prime numbers. ;-) Ok, that was just for fun. Here's also a version that skips a specific list of page numbers. (IMHO, it would still be better to figure out how to embed your graphic pages within Lilypond using eps!) -Curt From: lilypond

Re: Problem with LilyJAZZ.ily

2013-10-09 Thread Curt
Is it considered bad behavior to open up a github repository with Thorsten's contribution, and then apply the patches to it, for that to be considered the source of truth? On Oct 8, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Marc Hohl m...@hohlart.de wrote: Am 08.10.2013 06:23, schrieb Keith OHara: Thomas Morley

Re: Anki and LilyPond

2013-10-02 Thread Curt
I've made a few decks using perl scripting. One for guitar fretboard note identification, and two for jazz theory. But not for actual lilypond concepts/syntax - I can see how that would be useful. On Sep 13, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Hi list, I'm curious if

Re: Anki and LilyPond

2013-10-02 Thread Curt
list, and I think you can export to that, too. So, someone could import, add some cards, export, and commit the diffs. I think. Curt On Oct 2, 2013, at 12:36 AM, Urs Liska u...@openlilylib.org wrote: Is there the notion of collaboratively working on a deck? I see that they are stored

Re: Re[surrecting]: Version Control and Public Repository

2013-09-27 Thread Curt
of your tweaks library, with different version numbers in the file names. Curt On Sep 27, 2013, at 2:11 AM, Alexander Kobel n...@a-kobel.de wrote: Dear all, long time ago there was this thread about version controlling Lily scores, and much more recently Urs' excellent essay and tutorial

RE: \path command

2013-09-27 Thread Curt McDowell
Martin, you're absolutely right, I should have included an attachment. Sorry for the time wastage. Ming, try this version. It's just an idea. You might need to tweak relative positions and/or make the PostScript more elaborate to draw what you want. Cheers, Curt \version 2.13.51 \header

RE: lilypond slowdown in CGI web program

2013-09-26 Thread Curt McDowell
that is keeping the file descriptor open, or apache needs some clue when it's to be closed. If the server never closes the connection, the browser will give up after a timeout period, and only then display what it received. Cheers, Curt McDowell -Original Message- From: lilypond-user

RE: \path command

2013-09-26 Thread Curt McDowell
, Curt \version 2.13.51 \header { title = Mary Had a Little Lamb } fishA = \markup { \postscript #0.5 setlinewidth 5 0 moveto -7 6 -10 -7 -0.5 3 rcurveto stroke } fishB = \markup { \postscript #0.5 setlinewidth 5 -1 moveto -7 6 -10 -7 -0.5 3 rcurveto stroke

film score example

2013-09-12 Thread Curt
experience. Thanks for all your help, I hope someone finds this useful! Curt ~^~^~^~^ Unexpectedly hard parts of creating this score (all specific to v2.16): - General spacing and staff sizes. I believe Lilypond by default puts everything too close together for music that is read

RE: musicxml2ly enhancements

2013-04-10 Thread Curt McDowell
for measure numbers. I wish I'd found it sooner! Cheers, -Curt -Original Message- From: lilypond-user-bounces+lilypond=fishlet@gnu.org [mailto:lilypond-user-bounces+lilypond=fishlet@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Urs Liska Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 4:26 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject

RE: \relative proposal: putting absolute pitches anywhere within \relative block using @-sign

2013-03-23 Thread Curt McDowell
detail case. The problem you mention seems to be covered by nesting one \relative X { ... } inside another. It appears the treatment of X is still absolute when nested. Regards, Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https

Re: Four piano snippets

2013-01-31 Thread Curt
David, I'm not sure I followed), here's a revision of the first eight bars. It's complicated by the fact that sometimes I actually do alter the tremolo pattern when there is a piano note at the same time. How does this look?On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Urs Liska li...@ursliska.de wrote:

Re: Four piano snippets

2013-01-28 Thread Curt
to leave the fingering off. Especially since after a certain point of skill you could navigate passages with different fingerings with equal advantage. Shane On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:06 PM, David Nalesnik david.nales...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Curt, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:43 PM

Re: preview (-d flag) padding

2012-12-07 Thread Curt
Thanks, it looks like the minimum-Y-extent is working nicely! Is there a similar setting for adding horizontal padding? minimum-X-extent didn't seem to do anything.As for markup, at the bottom of this email (below quoted material) is an example. (I took out the inlay stuff for brevity.) I'm trying

preview (-d flag) padding

2012-11-30 Thread Curt
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guitar inlays / labels

2012-11-23 Thread Curt
Hi, I'm thinking of generating guitar fret diagrams to drill note names for beginning guitar, and I've gotten this far:Can anyone think of a way to put the fretboard inlay markers in there? Either on the diagram, or as labels above or below the fret diagram in the right fret location? dots on 3rd,

Re: guitar inlays / labels

2012-11-23 Thread Curt
students I have - I'm going to make an Anki flashcard deck to help people (including me) learn the guitar fretboard in general. First B's and C's, then E's and F's, and then filling in the rest. Curt On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:27 AM, Eluze elu...@gmail.com wrote: Curt Siffert wrote Hi, I'm

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
Yes, this is what I ended up using. Works pretty well, a couple of images attached. It'd be nice if lilypond supported this natively someday. Most of what I need could be accomplished just by by chord mode allowing roman numerals as well as note names. Doesn't need to support transposition since

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
I'm just curious what other jazz-lead-sheet use cases that the current snippet might not be sufficient for? That might help with making a good feature request. :-) I've long thought that using roman numerals would be a good spruced up nashville notation for helping jazz session musicians

Re: roman numerals

2012-11-21 Thread Curt
Well that's just half-dim, but the other one is a good point. There are plenty of jazz chords with extensions that would be valuable to notate in roman numerals. V7 #11 b9 for instance. #5, b13, whatever. It seems like so much of this could be enabled just by allowing chord mode to accept

roman numerals

2012-11-19 Thread Curt
qualities on a jazz lead for easier transposition, probably above the staff, above or alongside the existing chord symbols. - I am wanting to simply batch-generate a whole mess of those symbols completely by themselves, with no staff or note above/below. Thanks, Curt

-dpreview cuts off vertically?

2012-11-18 Thread Curt
While running a batch job to generate several chords, I found that some of them cut off the top improperly. For example, here is bdim7.ly . Yet, it seems to look fine for amin7.ly. These were generated from --png -dpreview . The source for the two files is below. Is this a bug? This was using

Re: mac lion

2012-09-12 Thread Curt
I've never been able to get frescobaldi working on os x. But I am enjoying the workflow with Elysium. Outline view, pdf output as you edit, etc. Plus, since it's an eclipse plugin, you get all the added benefits of an IDE, such as git/svn integration and other similar things. Curt On Sep

Re: Chordname collisions

2012-09-10 Thread Curt
For what it's worth, jazz lead sheets commonly portray this as putting the b9 on top of the #5, both inside larger parentheses. (I was notating this exact chord quality tonight, image from source pdf pasted below.) I'm not sure how to accomplish those large parentheses with \markup, but if that's

Re: Chordname collisions

2012-09-10 Thread Curt
This worked for me (in conjunction with the snippet I mentioned): c e gs bf df'1-\markup { \concat { \super "7" \raise #0.5 \fontsize #+2.0 "(" \fontsize #-4.0 \raise #2.0 \column {\line { \flat "9" }\line { \sharp "5" } } \raise #0.5 \fontsize #+3.0 ")" } }CurtOn Sep 9,

fonts on Mac 10.7.4

2012-09-02 Thread Curt
extra I have to do to make lilypond see my fonts? I saw the thing in the docs about fondu but that only looked relevant for the .dfont system fonts on os x. Thanks, Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org

Re: fonts on Mac 10.7.4

2012-09-02 Thread Curt
implies it should be possible to switch time signature fonts: http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation-big-page.html#single-entry-fonts Thanks to anyone willing to wade in these weeds. :) Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: fonts on Mac 10.7.4

2012-09-02 Thread Curt
, but Gloucester doesn't, even though Gloucester does work for title. Ah well, it looks like there are plenty of other fonts I can use, that work for time signature. I guess I learned a lot about font behavior tonight. :) Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: giant bar numbers

2012-08-31 Thread Curt
On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Nick Payne wrote: On 31/08/12 15:10, Nick Payne wrote: On 31/08/12 13:00, Curt wrote: For film scoring, it's common to want giant bar numbers in the middle of the score. Does anyone have ideas on how to center bar numbers above a bar, as opposed to them

vertical spacing on second page

2012-08-30 Thread Curt
Hi, am I misunderstanding how vertical spacing works? I am not sure how to make the second page of a score respect these \paper variables. The second page has everything close to the top for me. I am referring specifically to top-markup-spacing and markup-system-spacing. Thanks! Curt

giant bar numbers

2012-08-30 Thread Curt
for the bar-number-engraver, and then giving it a very large font. It'd be just above Violin 1 in the orchestral score. I think that way they'll be nicely aligned vertically - I'm just not sure how to center them. Thanks! Curt ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered but I can always also just play with the staff spacing a bit. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:06 AM, David Nalesnik wrote: Hi Curt, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:30 AM

drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
the documentation's problem or my problem. :-) ).Thanks again,Curt\version "2.16.00"\include "english.ly"\drums { ss hh \clef treble \notemode { a b c }}___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailm

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
ah-ha! Thank you David!! I'll read deeper on \with and \accepts. Curt On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Try \include english.ly \drums \with { \accepts Voice } { ss hh \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Curt accou...@museworld.com writes: On Aug 29, 2012, at 12:33 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Try \include english.ly \drums \with { \accepts Voice } { ss hh \new Voice { \notemode { \clef treble a b c } } } ah

Re: drummode and notemode

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:48 PM, David Kastrup wrote: Like with the previous example, I am somewhat skeptic that this will work under all important circumstances, but it looks like a somewhat feasible hack, and at least seems to do a bit more than my first proposal. -- David Kastrup Going

Re: cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-29 Thread Curt
Brandes wrote: Looks to me that the cross tie stuff lies easily under the left hand alone. Shane On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Curt accou...@museworld.com wrote: Thank you for the perspectives! It's nice to know that it comes across clearly. I was afraid it might look too cluttered

cross-hands, cross-staves

2012-08-28 Thread Curt
way to notate the following figure. Hands alternating, with melody in the pinky. The pattern continues throughout the piece (with different notes). Right hand stays in the same general location, right hand wanders down an octave or so at times.Thank you,Curt\version "2.16.0"\include &

Re: subito dynamic after hairpin

2012-08-23 Thread Curt
retaining the proper position of the dynamic (centered below its note). On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:32 PM, wjm wrote: Taking all that has gone before, where must Curt Siffert place his 'subito' text to make whatever it is he requires musically correct and meaningful? Perhaps a scan of a simple

Re: subito dynamic after hairpin

2012-08-23 Thread Curt
I've resolved my issue. :-)I usedhttp://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=739with a couple of small differences. I swapped the parameters, and then multiplied the calculation by -2 instead of 2. Works great.Thanks everyone!Curt___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: subito dynamic after hairpin

2012-08-22 Thread Curt Siffert
On Aug 21, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Nick Payne wrote: On 22/08/12 14:41, Curt Siffert wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a decrescendo end in a subito dynamic for the next note. Not sure how to make it align. I found lots of examples online

subito dynamic after hairpin

2012-08-21 Thread Curt Siffert
because I'm not 100% sure what would be the best way to notate this. Any suggestions? Three tries appended below. Thanks :) Curt \relative c'' { \time 3/4 d2.\mf\ | a2-\markup{ \italic \tiny subito } d8\!\mf( e) | R2. d2.\mf

chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread Curt Siffert
to a hideNotes approach, I get a note-column has no direction warning. Thanks, I'd love to submit this as a snippet once it's improved a bit. Curt \version 2.15.43 \language english chordSymbols = \chordmode { fs1:maj7 fs:maj7/e g:sus4 f e } songLyrics = \lyricmode { My

Re: chord/lyric lead sheet

2012-08-18 Thread Curt Siffert
Vromans wrote: Curt Siffert accou...@museworld.com writes: Hi, as a songwriter that sings/plays, I often want to put together rough lead sheets that communicate chords/lyrics/structure as a memory aid, or to give to backup musicians. Aren't you looking for a tool like Chordii? http

Re: lyrics free from notes

2007-06-03 Thread Curt Siffert
Sounds like the opposite of melisma. You want the words to track the notes. In melisma it's multiple notes per syllable. Here he might have multiple syllables per note. Which will sometimes happen in the case of multiple verses written under a melody line. (Although there is usually

handwritten font, drupal plugin

2007-05-19 Thread Curt Siffert
Hi, I'm thinking about learning lilypond as a really fast way to come up with jazz lead sheets like the ones in my fake books. I'm so used to the cool-looking handwritten fonts for chord symbols, though. Is there a way to make that happen for lilypond? Or, less importantly, the handwritten